choose-files-with-spaces.sh

# Useful snippet if you have a list of files with spaces in their names
# (I'm looking at you, OS X)

# path separators so I can use spaces in filenames 
OLD_IFS=${IFS}
# just use a linebreak and remove the space character
IFS=" 
"
select opt in $list_of_files_with_spaces ; do 
    echo $opt 
    # repair IFS 
    IFS=${OLD_IFS} 
    exit 0 
done